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« Reply #60 on Feb 20, 2010, 10:40pm »		[Quote]
I was next to the Pompidou Center this evening, so I went to see the construction date of that building, which was exactly what I thought it would be. Every similar building in Paris appears to have been built in the same 5-year period surrounding that date.

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I also took another picture so you could see that it really is right behind the Pompidou Center, and also Notre Dame is at the end of the street across not one but two bridges.

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« Reply #61 on Feb 20, 2010, 11:09pm »		[Quote]
Gosh, did you come across that building by chance?
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« Reply #62 on Feb 20, 2010, 11:14pm »		[Quote]
It's a building that I have seen for years, so it's hardly chance, but one of the good things about the discussions on this site is that they make you look at buildings (and all sorts of other things) differently. If we had not started discussing 'Streamline Moderne' architecture on this site, it would have just remained filed away in my mind as "not typical Haussmann architecture for some reason."
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« Reply #63 on Feb 20, 2010, 11:25pm »		[Quote]
Yes it's true that I now go around looking for subject matter to photograph. In this frame of mind the smallest to the largest things are potentially of interest.
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« Reply #64 on Feb 21, 2010, 7:29pm »		[Quote]
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This police station on Rue Daumesnil in Paris is both strange and fascinating. Not sure how on-topic but looks related. I found this picture online, you can't easily get a shot this nice from the street. There's a raised planted walkway across the street that I'm guessing where this was shot from.
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« Reply #65 on Feb 21, 2010, 7:52pm »		[Quote]
Strange and fascinating, indeed! Wow. They're sort of guy caryatids, but aren't supporting anything above. It's also strange that they're all the same -- you'd think they'd have gone for more of a chorus line effect. I'm thinking something unfortunate which I'll bowdlerize to "wonder how the architect got this commission".
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« Reply #66 on Feb 21, 2010, 8:09pm »		[Quote]
Well! I know that area quite well and have never seen that police station. So I just spent some time googling. The architect is Manuel Nunez-Yanowsky, born in 1942 and a post-modernist working mostly in France and Spain.
Some information here: http://whc.unesco.org/archive/websites/v....t/yanoswsky.htm

The figures on the police station are made of resin and are copies of Michelangelo's Dying Slave.
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« Reply #67 on Feb 21, 2010, 8:32pm »		[Quote]
Actually, that is more or less the view of the building that you get from the Promenade Plantée.
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« Reply #68 on Feb 26, 2010, 4:53pm »		[Quote]
I just realized I don't have to go downtown with my camera to photograph OUR Art Modern building, the Florence Hotel, since this thread is not in the Image Bank.
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This is the 3rd incarnation of a hotel by this name on the same corner. The first two burned down. This hotel was built for the age of the automobile and had an attached parking garage with 2 levels and a lift to place the vehicles in upper level cubbies.
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The parking garage is in the lower section to the left.
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« Reply #69 on Feb 26, 2010, 6:10pm »		[Quote]
Hmmm... the parking garage is not really an aesthetic success compared to the rest of the building.
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« Reply #70 on Mar 11, 2010, 7:59pm »		[Quote]
A dear friend recently passed away and she bequeathed me 2 teapots,both art deco,as she knew my love of that era. I was very moved to have found a note in each one from her,written just prior to her death.
Here is one of them. (the other,I am having difficulty photographing for some bizarre,bizarre reason,can't get it into focus! :())

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« Reply #71 on Mar 11, 2010, 10:56pm »		[Quote]
Sorry about your friend.

Your teapot has beautiful lines. The handle of the lid reminds me of those things (don't know the name) on the hoods of very expensive cars of the period.
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« Reply #72 on Mar 12, 2010, 1:28am »		[Quote]
You mean hood ornaments, Jazz?

Check these out as well.
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« Reply #73 on Mar 12, 2010, 6:17am »		[Quote]
It looks like it jumped out of a 1930's cartoon. :D I bet it comes to life at night while you are asleep.
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« Reply #74 on Mar 12, 2010, 10:31am »		[Quote]

Mar 12, 2010, 6:17am, kerouac2 wrote:
It looks like it jumped out of a 1930's cartoon. :D I bet it comes to life at night while you are asleep.

Yes,it does! Definitely looks like it has an attitude,hand on hip...

Thanks for your kind words Jazz. I thought the same about the lid and keep meaning to ask my husband about which car it specifically calls to mind (or,maybe a hairstyle of that era as well.. ;)).
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« Reply #75 on Mar 15, 2010, 11:29pm »		[Quote]
Reminds me of the Jaguar hood ornament...

And Kerouac, you don't have to go back to the 30's to see a cartoon teapot like that - Disney incorporates them into its cartoon movies, Beauty and the Beast I believe is the most recent.
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« Reply #76 on Apr 15, 2010, 7:16pm »		[Quote]

Feb 26, 2010, 4:53pm, kimby wrote:
I just realized I don't have to go downtown with my camera to photograph OUR Art Modern building, the Florence Hotel, since this thread is not in the Image Bank.
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This is the 3rd incarnation of a hotel by this name on the same corner. The first two burned down. This hotel was built for the age of the automobile and had an attached parking garage with 2 levels and a lift to place the vehicles in upper level cubbies.
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The parking garage is in the lower section to the left.


Front page article in today's newspaper says the owner of this historic old building is entertaining the idea of re-converting the offices to hotel rooms, rebirthing it as a boutique hotel.

The beauty part is that this idea resulted from a chance conversation between two downtown businessmen, one who has a plot of land he wanted to build a hotel on, and the other who owns the old Florence hotel and has his law offices there. Instead of building a modern hotel and keeping the offices in the old hotel, the land owner plans to build a modern office building while the hotel owner re-remodels the hotel back into a hotel. When it's all done, the offices in the former hotel will be the tenants of the new office building, and our downtown will have a fabulous old new hotel.
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« Reply #77 on Apr 18, 2010, 8:23am »		[Quote]
The Dallas / Fort Worth metro area is a wealth of deco and streamlined modern. Looking for pictures of the fair grounds in Dallas, because I know it retains the original art deco buildings, I came across this picture:

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Seems this building had been pretty much abandoned, but the city has encouraged the current owner to fix it up, rather than tear it down. I think it is just wonderful they've encouraged the owner that way.

Full information: http://www.preservationnation.org/magazi....s-art-deco.html
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« Reply #78 on May 2, 2010, 2:52pm »		[Quote]
Here is the Palais Berlitz (which Berlitz finally left about a decade ago -- but what a large language school it was!).

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« Reply #79 on May 2, 2010, 3:24pm »		[Quote]
Haven't visited this thread in a while, which is how I missed that jewelry-like detailing on the Dallas building. Great article, Gertie.

That Berlitz building looks like an ocean liner!
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« Reply #80 on May 2, 2010, 3:36pm »		[Quote]
Oh, I know where a building is in Paris that looks even more like an ocean liner, but I haven't had a chance to go back there recently.
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« Reply #81 on May 21, 2010, 10:17pm »		[Quote]
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« Reply #82 on May 22, 2010, 12:10am »		[Quote]
Gorgeous! NYC, right?

I'm following a thread on TT. It's a young couple from Denmark planning an extensive driving trip through the US. They want to see the Art Deco bldgs in Miami, although other posters are recommending against Florida because of time constraints and summer heat. They will be in NY, and I made my pitch for the incredible architecture there, plus linked to your Brooklyn Bridge thread.
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« Reply #83 on May 22, 2010, 10:36am »		[Quote]
Yes,that was taken in Rockefeller Center,NYC. There were 3 beautiful panels,the other pics I took of them did not come out.
I would always recommend an excursion to NYC to anyone visiting the U.S.
Miami Beach is indeed hot this time of year,but,it really is not that unbearable,and you have an ocean you can dive into to cool off. If they're looking to see Art Deco,there is no other place that has such a plethora of and because it is the off season,flights are cheap,cheap,and there are far less tourists. I plan on going back again next month.I scoped out airfares last night and was astounded at how cheap they were.
Oh,and thanks for the plug re:Brooklyn Bridge. I am flattered!
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« Reply #84 on May 22, 2010, 4:16pm »		[Quote]
Flattered?! Your contributions flatter and enhance this forum!
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May 22, 2010, 10:36am, casimira wrote:
Miami Beach is indeed hot this time of year, but, it really is not that unbearable,and you have an ocean you can dive into to cool off. If they're looking to see Art Deco, there is no other place that has such a plethora of and because it is the off season, flights are cheap,cheap,and there are far less tourists. I plan on going back again next month. I scoped out airfares last night and was astounded at how cheap they were.

You might want to wait and see what the submerged oil slick does before committing...if it gets into the Loop Current, it will go right through the keys and mess up the Atlantic Coast. Makes me want to throttle the "drill, baby, drill" crowd.
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« Reply #86 on May 22, 2010, 9:11pm »		[Quote]
You know Kimby,I, we, will be living with this debacle for a long,long time. I am going to try and make the best of a horrible,horrible,situation. If everyone takes on that attitude,of staying away from areas affected by this,we are F****d!! A good friend of mine,actually,living in Miami Beach,told me the other evening,"this makes me want to come to NOLA even more and be there to show support." I hope to be able to do the same for those other folks affected by it and it will not stop me from going to Miami Beach.
(Sorry for the threadjack....) I will post something of a similar nature in the appropriate thread when I am able to allow myself to go back in there.... :-/

Thanks again Bixa! :)
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« Reply #87 on May 22, 2010, 9:49pm »		[Quote]
Thanks, casi, for slapping me upside the head. I needed that.
What was I thinking?
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« Reply #88 on May 22, 2010, 9:56pm »		[Quote]

May 22, 2010, 9:49pm, kimby wrote:
Thanks, casi, for slapping me upside the head. I needed that.
What was I thinking?

Anytime Kimby ;) :-*
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« Reply #89 on May 22, 2010, 10:31pm »		[Quote]
According to wikipedia, Streamline Moderne was a late form of Art Deco in which the angular shapes and ornamentation were stripped away in favor of smooth streamlined often nautical shapes. Interestingly, one of the buildings wiki chose to illustrate the concept is the Club Moderne in Anaconda, Montana:
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